Etidorhpa

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Etidorhpa is the title of a scientific allegory/science fiction novel by John Uri Lloyd, a pharmacognocist and pharmaceutical manufacturer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Etidorpha was published in full in 1895.

[edit] Title

The word "Etidorhpa" is the backward spelling of the name "Aphrodite". The first editions of Etidorhpa were distributed privately; later editions of the book also features numerous striking illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp.

The full title is Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey. It was published in 1895.

[edit] Concept

It purports to be an MS (or rather two manuscripts) by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man , and one Llewyllyn Drury, the whole being communicated to John Uri Lloyd, who published the same. Drury's adventure culminates into a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the heart of the earth. Ideas presented in Etidorhpa include practical Alchemy, secret Masonic orders, the Hollow Earth theory and the concept of transcending the physical realm.